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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Phonology Circle
Spring 2012

Phonology Circle will meet on Wednesdays this semester from 5–7pm in 32-D831 unless otherwise noted. The Phonology Circle is a weekly forum for the presentation of current research in phonology and phonetics. If you want to receive the email announcements, or have any other comments about Phonology Circle, please email Michael Kenstowicz.

February 21:

Karim Shoul, CNRS
The Relationship Between Back and Front Articulations in Moroccan Arabic

February 29:

Youngah Do & Michael Kenstowicz
Kyungsang Korean Accent Patterns: Lexical Drift, Loanwords, Novel Words

March 7:

Peter Graff and Emad Taliep
English Speakers Track Absolute Frequency in Consonant Co-occurrence

March 14:

Sam Steddy

March 19, Monday @ 5:30pm:

Adam Albright
Discovering and modeling cumulative markedness interactions with loglinear models

March 28:

Holiday

April 2 (Monday):

Sverre Strausland Johnsen
Vowel Weakening in Old West Saxon

April 11:

Suyeon Yun
Epenthesis Positioning in Loan Adaptation: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

April 25:

Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Brown University)
What echo reduplication reveals about correspondence and similarity

May 2:

Rory Turnbull (Ohio State University)

May 9:

Gretchen Kern
Perceptual Similarity in Sonority Contours: Evidence from Early Irish Rhyming Patterns

May 16:

Manchester Phonology Meeting